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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...systemic violence and unsustainability. Resources for Developing Affective and Relational Capacities As mentioned above, there is no universal guide to decolonisation. It demands different things of different people, and thus it is important to have different resources, and even different spaces for people to engage with this work. For instance, my own approach to...
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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...think poems are very apt for, apt machines for, capturing in the same way as cameras are, you know, just this little moment which seems to have a resonance. And it seems to keep on resonating, so that I was actually sort of just jumping up and down in the waves with her, and I glanced sideways as a particularly big wave came over and she jumped up but she didn’t jump up...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...thinking about how alcoholic beverages are produced, how different products are manufactured and analysed. The effects on the body will be explored, both in terms of consuming alcohol and how they smell and taste. The history of alcohol manufacture will be explored and you will have the chance to make your own drinks, through an optional home-brew experiment. All these...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...system humans had subjected them to. Fables work by casting animals as characters with minds that are recognisably human. This superimposition of human minds and animals serves as a medium for transmitting and teaching moral and ethical values, in particular to children. It does this by drawing on the symbolic connection between nature and society and the dilemmas that...
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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...think we consider that the data in Figure 1 show prevalence rates and not simply prevalence as defined in the paragraph above? Because they show the number of people who have emotional disorders, expressed as a rate per 100 (i.e. a percentage) of the population. Prevalence would just tell us the total number of people with emotional disorders in the population. The burden...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...think about Why we read fiction? What do we hope to gain from reading stories about imagined events that happen to imaginary people? Robert DiYanni begins his impressively wide-ranging study Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay (1997) with the following assertion about why we read: We read stories for pleasure; they entertain us. And we read them for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...think GPs listen to them? But one simple question can bring up a huge amount of information. How would you know that Google has provided you with the best information at the top of the list? You might have thousands of entries to look at. How do you know what to look at first, or how much information to look through? Then you have to think about the reliability of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...think tank-led narratives that have a mutually reinforcing and often negative effect on the UK government’s policies, and those of its allies. Much of what we read in the press, or even in so-called informed analysis by purported experts, is subject to heavy bias, often from vested interests. My main object of study, Iran, is exposed to crass generalisations about its...
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